Surfer Dude Stuns Physicists With Theory Of Everything
Friday November 30th 2007, 12:57 pm
Filed under: porpoisescience

surfer dude“An impoverished surfer has drawn up a new theory of the universe, seen by some as the Holy Grail of physics, which has received rave reviews from scientists.” In winter, he heads to the mountains near Lake Tahoe, Nevada, where he snowboards.

“Being poor sucks, Lisi says. “It’s hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you’re trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month.” “Despite this unusual career path, his proposal is remarkable because, by the arcane standards of particle physics, it does not require highly complex mathematics.”

“Even better, it does not require more than one dimension of time and three of space, when some rival theories need ten or even more spatial dimensions and other bizarre concepts.”

Article @ Telegraph UK
An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything @ Wikipedia



Greg Moore: Thanks for the Memories
Wednesday November 28th 2007, 1:05 am
Filed under: porpoiseracing


Connaître La Bretagne
Tuesday November 27th 2007, 10:37 am
Filed under: porpoisetravel

“It is difficult to resist Brittany’s charm and to escape being captivated by this land created by the vagaries of wind, water and time. The Romans’ “finis terrae” possesses all the attributes needed to charm visitors. Along a coastline where steep cliffs give way to fine sandy beaches, historic fishing villages nestle side by side with renowned seaside resorts. Inland, the heath merges into rolling hills and lakes and marshes conceal oases of green.”

Discover Brittany
History Of Brittany



Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD)
Tuesday November 27th 2007, 12:31 am
Filed under: porpoisespace
Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD)@ porpoiseblog


Countdown To A Meltdown
Monday November 26th 2007, 10:16 am
Filed under: redporpoise

January 20, 2016, Master Strategy Memo
Subject: The Coming Year—and Beyond

Sir:

It is time to think carefully about the next year. Our position is uniquely promising—and uniquely difficult. The promise lies in the fact that you are going to win the election. Nothing is guaranteed in politics, but based on everything we know, and barring an act of God or a disastrous error on our side, one year from today you will be sworn in as the forty-sixth president of the United States. Countdown@theatlantic.com



Dj Ghostbeard@Wayé
Thursday November 22nd 2007, 9:40 am
Filed under: porpoisestuff
Nice, very nice


Tariq Ali
Wednesday November 21st 2007, 8:13 pm
Filed under: redporpoise

If 1967 saw the Summer of Love, the following year could not have been more different. As riots swept the streets of Paris, President de Gaulle fled to Germany, seemingly impotent in the face of radical student leaders like Daniel Cohn-Bendit – Dany le Rouge.

Across the Channel 25,000 students marched on the American Embassy in London in a violent outburst against the Vietnam war. At their head the moustachioed Tariq Ali, blessed with film-star good looks, urged the masses on to revolution. TariqAli.org



Over The Mountains, The Beach And The Sea
Wednesday November 21st 2007, 9:38 am
Filed under: porpoisemusic

Este es un disco conceptual que narra un día en la vida de una pareja. La historia va más o menos así: Ella toma un bañoo. Él va a casa de ella en bicicleta. Discuten sobre sus autores favoritos (¿Tu connais William Faulkner?). Van a comer mariscos. Cogen el tren para regresar a casa y en el trayecto aprovechan para subirse a una rueda de la fortuna. Ven una película. Recuerdan su infancia. Ella trata de suicidarse.Él la rescata. Ya más tranquilos deciden embriagarse, recuerdan el día en que se conocieron (un año nuevo) y proceden a morir. Un buen día.

The Divine Comedy – Tonight We Fly
Promenade
Setanta Records, 1994
Cómprenlo@amazon.com



The Three Laws Of Dialectics
Tuesday November 20th 2007, 10:05 am
Filed under: redporpoise

One–Everything is made of opposing forces/opposing sides.

Two–Gradual changes lead to turning points, where one opposite overcomes the other.

Three–Change moves in spirals, not circles.

These are the three laws of dialectics according to Frederick Engels, in his book Dialectics of Nature. Engels believed that dialectics was “A very simple process which is taking place everywhere and every day, which any child can understand.”

Dialectics For Kids@icg.org
Dialectics Of Nature@marxists.org
What is Dialectical Materialism?@marxist.org



Nostromo, A Tale Of The Seaboard (1904)
Friday November 16th 2007, 9:46 am
Filed under: porpoisebooks

“In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco—the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity—had never been commercially anything more important than a coasting port with a fairly large local trade in ox-hides and indigo. The clumsy deep-sea galleons of the conquerors that, needing a brisk gale to move at all, would lie becalmed, where your modern ship built on clipper lines forges ahead by the mere flapping of her sails, had been barred out of Sulaco by the prevailing calms of its vast gulf. Some harbours of the earth are made difficult of access by the treachery of sunken rocks and the tempests of their shores. Sulaco had found an inviolable sanctuary from the temptations of a trading world in the solemn hush of the deep Golfo Placido as if within an enormous semi-circular and unroofed temple open to the ocean, with its walls of lofty mountains hung with the mourning draperies of cloud.”

Joseph Conrad – Nostromo eText@Project Gutenberg